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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Jeb Bush's Middle East Policy No Different from Idiot Brother's

For almost 15 years now, America has been plagued by a never ending disaster in the Middle East that was launched for the most part by the lies and deceit of George W. Bush and Emperor Palpatine Cheney. In short, they and their advisers took America to war in Iraq based on deliberate lies and a fantasy world view of how their fool's errand would play out. Thousands of Americans - and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis - paid with literally their lives and/or ruined lives and America was partially bankrupted. Enter Jeb "Jebbie" Bush and his ego driven desire to be president. Terrifyingly, Jebbie's view of the Middle East and his would be policies would likely be a carbon copy of his idiot brother's disastrous policies. Jebbie and the recycled advisers he has assembled from his brother's failed regime have learned nothing from the last 15 years. This alone disqualifies the man from ever occupying the White House. The Washington Post looks at the concern of even Republicans who revel in killing Muslims have over Jebbie's would be policies. Here are excerpts:

When Jeb Bush stepped up onto the fabled soapbox at the Iowa State Fair
on Friday, fairgoers pelted him with questions about the legacy of his
brother, a former president. And his father, another former president.
And one of his foreign policy advisers, Paul D. Wolfowitz, the architect
of his brother’s war in Iraq. And about the war itself.

Under a
blazing sun, Bush expressed irritation with what he called “the parlor
game” of focusing on Wolfowitz and other past Bush administration
advisers who have resurfaced for this Bush campaign.

This was supposed to be the week when Bush would finally lay out his
own thoughts on how to combat the Islamic State terror group and put
Hillary Rodham Clinton on the defensive — and wrest himself from his
family legacy in the process. But over several days, it has become
evident that his ideas on the subject are remarkably similar to George
W. Bush’s ideas and that he firmly believes that Democrats — not his
brother — deserve the blame for the unrest in Iraq and neighboring
Syria.

His new struggles with the issue also come as he is fading
in polls and being drowned out by the angry outsiders dominating the
race.

According to Bush this week, the removal of Saddam Hussein from power
“turned out to be a pretty good deal.” The 2007 troop surge was “an
extraordinarily effective” strategy. By the time his brother left
office, he said, the “mission was accomplished” in Iraq because security
had been restored.

Bush also said he won’t rule out
waterboarding in the interrogation of terrorism suspects, although he
added, “I do think in general that torture is not appropriate.”

He said it might be necessary to deploy more U.S. forces to both Iraq
and Syria — and that troops already on the ground should be embedded
more closely with local forces.

Democrats are eager to exploit Bush’s remarks this week to remind
voters of his family ties. During a town hall in Dubuque, Iowa, on
Friday afternoon, Clinton took aim at Bush’s criticism of her, noting
that his brother signed an agreement as president to withdraw combat
troops from the country by 2011. I do think that it’s a little
bit surprising to hear Jeb Bush talk about this,” she said. “He expects
the American people to have a collective case of amnesia.”

Most Americans still believe the Iraq war was a mistake and are opposed
to new military engagement — making Jeb Bush’s approach to national
security risky.

Carl Owens, a hog farmer, stood off to the side taking in the scene. “I
don’t know if he’s like his brother and dad or not,” said Owens, 59. “I
wasn’t too happy with them. Mr. Bush, the last president, look at the
mess he got the United States into over there where we shouldn’t have
been. Kind of like the Vietnam War. We shouldn’t have been there.”

Mr. Owens, the hog farmer has clearer vision than Jebbie. And if anyone is playing "parlor games" it is Jebbie and his delusional advisers - except their games involve throwing away more American lives.

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